Hideie Ukita

Hideie Ukita (1573-17 December 1655) was the daimyo of the Ukita clan of Bizen Province and was a vassal of the Toyotomi clan.

Biography
Hideie Ukita was the son of Naoie Ukita, the lord of Bizen Province, and he sided with Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Hashiba after 1587, when he came of age. He married Hideyoshi's daughter Lady Go, who had been adopted by Toshiie Maeda, and he fought in the Shikoku, Kyushu, and Odawara campaigns of the Toyotomi clan.

In 1598, after fighting in the Korean campaign, he was appointed as one of the "Council of Five Elders" along with Toshiie Maeda, Kagekatsu Uesugi, Terumoto Mori, and Ieyasu Tokugawa. He sided with Mitsunari Ishida in the succession war that occurred after the death of Hideyoshi, backed by Kagekatsu and Terumoto. Japan's Western Army Toyotomi loyalists were led by most of Hideyoshi's old generals, and Ukita was one of them. With 17,000 troops, he took part in the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, where the Western Army was defeated. Hideie was exiled to Hachijo Island, where he died, outliving all of the Sengoku samurai.